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by em-bee 1097 days ago
or type ctrl-alt-delete to start a reboot, if that's not been disabled.
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SoftTalker 1097 days ago
I think at one point that caused a console message: "This isn't DOS"

ctrl-alt-delete has not rebooted OpenBSD in a long time.

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em-bee 1097 days ago
i am not surprised.

but the irony is that i'd prefer if someone trying to shut down my computer they would use ctrl-alt-del to initiate a clean shutdown/reboot instead of just pulling the power. in fact, if my GUI is stuck somehow, i'd want that for myself too.

"This isn't DOS" is rather inconveniencing myself for the sake of purity. i have been there too when i was young.

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throwawaymobule 1096 days ago
if it is followed with the right process for shutdown, I think that message is good. (like vim telling you how to exit, if you hit ctrl-c)

does BSD have sysreq commands like Linux?

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